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Castle Mountain
The descent gully can be difficult to find if there are no tracks in the snow and snow lingers on the summit ridge for much of the year. You are looking for a gully north of where you top out on the summit ridge. Descend and past the first notch and gully you come two. Do not get sucked down the east slopes of Castle Mountain by cairns that represent the scramble route up from Rockbound Lake and exits a completely different side of the mountain. After descending to and passing the first notch, angle straight across or up searching for the next gully which will not come into view until you reach it.
Castle Mountain, after completing the Bass Buttress Direct Route, II, 5.7, July, 2007, Banff National Park


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Submitted by Dow Williams
on Jul 19, 2007 11:05 am

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Lat/Lon: 32.84000°N / 113.91°W

Image Type(s): Rock Climbing



""You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.""   --Rene Daumal   

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